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Advisor at the Royal Court and General Supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah and United Kingdom (UK) Minister of State for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell signed on Monday a joint cooperation agreement with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to support multisectoral actions to combat severe acute malnutrition in Somalia. KSrelief and the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) will contribute $2.5 million each.
Martin Griffiths, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, has said the international community needed to act with a heightened sense of urgency to address the war-torn country of Sudan. "Sudan keeps getting forgotten by the international community," the UN aid chief told diplomats at the United Nations in Geneva on Wednesday.
Advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah launched on Sunday 24 humanitarian and relief projects in the food, health, education, water and environmental sanitation sectors in Somalia. The projects, worth $45 million, are expected to benefit 5,798,077 people.
The first Saudi relief plane left King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh to El Arish International Airport in Egypt prior to sending its content to affected people in the Gaza Strip. The plane carries various relief and shelter items with a total weight of 35 tons as part of the Saudi campaign to help the Palestinian people in Gaza, which was launched under directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Prime Minister.